In the Heavens

in the palace

"They are all good servants of mine!"

"What a country, peace and prosperity!"

"Humph!"

"The bandit attack, the masked man's sneak attack, the devil's sneak attack... I am also familiar with the history books, why have I never heard of such a peaceful and prosperous world?"

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It's no wonder that Emperor Taichang was angry, what happened was really irritating. Just to check the property of the monk temple, without saying what to do, to make such a big movement, it is clearly a demonstration against him, the emperor.

However, the performance of the imperial guards was not satisfactory, not to mention their noses and faces were bruised and swollen. The key is that they knew who the murderer was, but they didn't report it according to the facts. This made Emperor Taichang very passive now.

After finally planning an operation, it was to strike a sudden attack from all sides, but at a critical moment, the imperial army lost its chain, directly making the court a laughing stock.

It is impossible to hold accountable, there are too many related households in the Forbidden Army. Now that this bunch of trash has been beaten up, if he pursues the responsibility again, it will appear that he, the emperor, has no measure, and it will easily trigger a collective backlash from the Xungui Group.

Today is different. In the current Great Zhou Empire, the requirements for officials have been greatly reduced. As long as there is no harm in righteousness, some small mistakes are nothing at all.

As for this incident, when it comes to the court, the imperial guards are not only innocent, but also meritorious officials. Although the investigation of the properties of the monks and temples failed, they wiped out the rebellious parties near the capital and maintained the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Regardless of whether the emperor believed it or not, all civil and military officials believed it anyway. If you don't believe me, you can read the memorial. The number of enemies annihilated above has broken the 100,000 mark, and even the golden core demon has hacked to death several times.

The only regret is that no body was left behind. However, considering the demon cult monsters, it makes sense to destroy the corpses and traces in time.

Similar battle reports are received every year. The battle reports from all over the country are gathered together, and there are not 10 million or 8 million rebellious parties that are wiped out every year.

Corresponding to the endless news of good news is what all officials say-Guotai Minan.

Of course, the constant loss of cities and lands was indispensable during the period. Lost, regained, lost, regained... the entire industrial chain of the first cycle, so that Zhou Tianzi didn't know which parts were still there and which parts had been lost.

There is no way, this situation has continued for thousands of years. Several generations of emperors have been making peace with each other, but Emperor Taichang is an emperor who likes to be more serious.

In fact, Emperor Taichang also thought about fooling around, but the prophecy of the ten-thousand-year catastrophe left by his ancestors was right in front of him, so he couldn't allow him to continue to live and dream.

If you don't reform, you are waiting for death. No one knows about reform. Anyway, in the past nearly ten thousand years, the Great Zhou Empire has reformed dozens of times, all of which ended in failure.

After dozens of times of tossing, the empire was not tossed to death, so Emperor Taichang would naturally continue to try. Anyway, no matter how hard you try, it won't be worse than the current situation.

After the emperor had finished venting his anger, Tang Guogong Yang Shuo stepped forward to persuade him, "Your Majesty, please calm down! If you lose your temper, you won't let those rebellious officials and thieves get their wish."

"Calm your anger?"

Emperor Taichang sneered and said: "Those rebellious officials and thieves are so arrogant, and my forbidden army has become a sick cat again. How can you let me appease my anger?"

After hearing the emperor's words, Yang Shuo lowered his head silently. The subordinates are not up to date, and the life of being the boss is not easy. Now being angered by the emperor, he can only pretend to be deaf and dumb.

Seeing that something bad was going to happen, the chief assistant of the cabinet hurried forward to help explain: "Your Majesty, this matter has nothing to do with Duke Yang. The fatigue of the Imperial Army has already been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and it will not be reversed in a day.

This time, things are not all bad. The conservatives are powerful and it is not easy to directly compete with them. It is just right to take advantage of this failure to paralyze them first.

As for the matter of the forbidden army, continue to reform. In fact, the performance of the Forbidden Army has been much better than before.

Although they were beaten to shame, at least this time they fought against the enemy. Whether they can win or not is a matter of strength, and they still have some loyalty to the imperial court. "

If you don't have the ability, you can only talk about loyalty. Compared with other armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the loyalty of the Forbidden Army to the imperial court is definitely at the forefront.

All the honorable children in it are members of vested interest groups, their buttocks are absolutely upright, and almost all of them support the rule of the Great Zhou Empire.

Emperor Taichang taunted: "Hmph! All they have left is loyalty, but it's a pity that this poor loyalty has been discounted!"

Loyalty to the Great Zhou does not mean loyalty to the emperor. The Xungui Group are all staunch supporters of the Great Zhou Empire. It is hard to say how many are supporters of the emperor.

If it weren't for the lack of available people, Emperor Taichang would have liked to replace all these guys. It's a pity that this can only be thought about. Without the support of the Xungui Group, the Great Zhou Empire would immediately fall apart.

Li Fan, who was standing at the door, couldn't help but suggested, "Your Majesty, these people are loyal to the imperial court after all. Since they refuse to support reform, it is better to use waste and send them to the local area to suppress the rebellion.

Although the abilities of these people are not very good, the power behind them is not small. If they can lure the forces behind them to contribute by promising huge profits, it should not be difficult to stabilize the local situation.

In any case, the rebellion must be extinguished now. Otherwise, the imperial court's finances would be swallowed up by this bottomless pit sooner or later. "

bad idea?

good idea?

No one can tell. The only thing that is certain is: According to Li Fan's proposal, the urgent needs of the court can be solved first. As for the sequelae that may be caused by this, the reformers still don't care so much.

In fact, most of these people present are also descendants of honored nobles, and the differences are limited to direct lineage and collateral lineage, minor nobles and great nobles, real nobles and false nobles.

Even if you don't have a title on your head, your ancestors must be nobles. Including the orthodox literati family, which is also a member of the aristocratic group in essence. It's just that because of interests, different groups have been formed.

To this day, a chain of contempt has formed within the aristocratic group of the Great Zhou Empire:

The local princes are the most powerful and stand at the top of the chain of contempt. Look down on all the guys with false titles, and think that without fiefs, they are not orthodox nobles;

The vain aristocrats in the mixed army also look down on the guys who study the text, thinking that these literati can only play tricks, without the slightest aristocratic demeanor, and they don't want to be with them;

The ostracized literati aristocrats are envious and jealous of the above two groups that do not take them to play. As a last resort, we had to start anew and pull out a civil servant group.

These three groups are divided into several small groups. At the same time, there are also people who cross large groups, for example: conservatives, reformers, and neutrals are just three hodgepodges.

Affected by this, the entire Dazhou officialdom was in disarray. Today they are reformists, tomorrow they are conservatives, and the day after tomorrow they may become neutrals again. Things that jump back and forth happen from time to time.

If we go deeper, almost all of these great nobles with ancient inheritance have been married, and they are all fucking relatives. It is equivalent to a big family playing political games with the emperor. To be precise, the emperor is also a member of this family.

In the past tens of thousands of years, no matter how the situation changes, power has been rotated in this small circle.

Seeing that no one objected, after hesitating for a moment, Emperor Taichang said slowly: "Since no one objects, then follow Li Aiqing's proposal!

Mr. Yang, I will leave this matter to you. Draw up a list as soon as possible, and send these bastards somewhere! "

Looking at the emperor's face, Yang Shuo secretly complained. Local officials these days are not easy to sit on. Not only are their promotions slow, but they also have to deal with rioters every day.

Now everyone is desperately squeezing towards the center. In the eyes of most people, releasing Beijing officials is tantamount to exile.

Even if it can be upgraded to a level, so what? Looking at it ten or twenty years later, basically those who stayed in Beijing would do better.

If you really want to let it out, you will wait until you have reached a certain level and you need to step into the ranks of high officials in the DPRK and China by relying on it, and then everyone will consider it.

Drawing up a list at this time is destined to offend people. But there is no way, compared with the ease and freedom of the feudal nobles, he, the powerful Tang Guogong, has to follow the footsteps of the emperor.

But for reformers, this is a great thing. Kicking away this group of people not only reduces the troubles that may be encountered in the next reform, but also frees up a lot of places for their own people.

These days, which family doesn't have a few cubs waiting to fill in the vacancies? Even if his son doesn't need it, someone in the family will definitely need it.

Everyone has been coveting the Forbidden Army controlled by Xungui's lineage for a long time, but there has never been a suitable opportunity to intervene.

With such a big benefit, everyone's eyes on Li Fan suddenly became much more pleasing to the eye. They all admired: It is worthy of being "the reincarnation of a sage", this kind of ideological awareness is high.

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